Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment Against Israel by by Dr. Majed Nassar

Bryan Atinsky, Alternative Information Center (AIC)3 December 2005

A lecture by Dr. Majed Nassar, titled Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment Against Israel from the International conference, Building a Future Together: Alternatives to the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse, which took place in Bethlehem, on 2-3 December 2005.

Dr Nassar is Executive Director of the Palestinian Health Work Committees and is member of the Board of Directors of the Alternative Information Center (AIC).

Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment Against Israel

Dr. Majed Nassar is Executive Director of the Palestinian Health Work Committees.

Academia is not innocent, I will give some examples:

The Hebrew University has been slowly but consistently expropriating land and expelling Palestinian owners in occupied East Jerusalem.

Tel Aviv University refuses to acknowledge the fact that it sits on top of an ethnically cleansed Palestinian village.

Ben Gurion University has supported in various ways the slow ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian Bedouins in the Negev, these finding were kept secret until recently and in accordance with the university’s agreement with the Ministry.

Haifa University boasts its one of the most racist academics in Israel who relentlessly and influentially provides academic justification for ethnic cleansing. Haifa University sponsored a wide campaign attempting to cover up a little known zionist massacre of Tantora near Haifa in 1948. Haifa University tried to discredit or silence Professor Ilan Pappé and one of his students for daring to reveal the facts about this massacre. Professor Tanya Reinhart from Tel Aviv university is living the same experience.

Bar Ilan University not only operates a campus on the illegal colony of Ariel near Nabulas, it has also awarded Sharon an honorary doctorate!

"The United States is 4.6% of the worlds people but still controls 50% of the worlds wealth and has a military that spends more than every other country in the world combined. I see this moment, as a moment that is very dangerous.. which is to say that the United States is a declining world economic power, similarly a declining political power, but what isn't declining is the military power. As you know from the 20th century that's a dangerous combination - a declining economic and political power but an overwhelmingly dominant military power. I think the national security state that we've seen organised since 9-11 in an unbelievably rapid way, which owes in no small part to Israel I must say, is a particular [example]."